MAGALLON v. LIVINGSTON

No. 06-70023.

453 F.3d 268 (2006)

Carlos Gonzalez MAGALLON, Consul General of Mexico and Next Friend of Angel Maturino Resendiz, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brad LIVINGSTON, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Douglas Dretke, Director, Correctional Institutions Division Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Charles O'Reilly; Unknown Executioners, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Dow, Jared Tyler, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX, Timothy K. Ford, MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, WA, for Magallon.

Edward Larry Marshall, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, BENAVIDES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided that Eighth Amendment challenges to a state's method of execution may properly be brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See Hill v. McDonough, ___ U.S. ___, ___ S.Ct. ___, ___ L.Ed.2d ___ (2006). We have such a suit before us today. In this opinion, however, we only address narrow issues of civil procedure. The result is that we affirm in part and modify in part, remanding for further proceedings...

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